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It's up there. In fact pretty much every communications satellite ever launched is still up there. A few hundred miles above the "geostationary" band where communications satellites serve their useful days is a growing graveyard of old communications
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This AT&T Prepaid cell phone could be a lifesaver. Let me lay it out for you. You're a thrifty person, you watch those Sprint commercials where they tell you you can save a lot with just a small difference in coverage. And then you realize
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You know that somewhere, probably in your garage, you have a pile of old cables. And if you've been in the home theater hobby long enough, that probably includes 15-20 coaxial cables of different types. Possibly more. You know it's expensive and you don't want to just toss it, so you
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Those lucky folks who got the most recent update for DIRECTV Genie are still working out the kinks. This is going to be a very long and slow process for DIRECTV customers as their feedback is taken into account as new features are added or changed. The old menu system was full of dead-end shortcuts that were very rarely used. The new system does away with some of them, but others are simply hidden away.

If you're looking for something to record, you might want to go to a specific date and time in the DIRECTV guide. You can use the fast forward and rewind buttons to go forward and back 12 hours, but if you know exactly when and where you want to go, you might want to jump straight there.

This used to be done by pressing the DASH button to the left of the zero, or back in the old days with the yellow button, but since the DASH button is now used for search, power users have found themselves a little confused as to where they can go for extra guide options. Luckily that little submenu isn't gone, it's just harder to find if you don't know where to look.

All you have to do is press the ZERO button and you will see the guide options screen where you can sort by program type or go to a specific date and time. The screen looks pretty much identical to the way it used to look, once you realize that all the 2010-era shininess has been moved off. It's just as easy as it ever was to go to a specific date and time in the guide, luckily for you.

Well, I sure hope so. Although I'm personally not terribly unhappy with the speed I see from DIRECTV's products I know a lot of people who are. To be fair I usually only have the most recent stuff in my house, since I test a lot of new things. But even so, I think that the last several generations of hardware have been "pretty good" and
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It's a pretty fair question though, since most of us remember when TV antennas were over 6 feet long even if you lived in a suburb fairly near a city. The only way you could get away with a smaller antenna was if you lived right in the city itself. Then,
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